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Jesse, very calmly.
- JESSEI have a counter-offer.
- OPERATIVE…
- OPERATIVEI am listening.
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Jesse.
- JESSEYou don't take the USB.
- JESSEYou don't take the guitar.
- JESSEWe don't play your venue. We don't play your audience.
- JESSEWe play this room. Right now.
- JESSEWith the equipment in this warehouse.
- JESSEFor an audience of one.
- JESSEYou.
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The Operative, intrigued despite themselves.
- OPERATIVE…
- OPERATIVEAn audience of one.
- JESSEYou said you wanted to listen to records.
- JESSEI am offering you a live show.
- JESSEI am offering you something no one in your division has ever offered you.
- JESSEThree songs. Twelve minutes. And then we negotiate.
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The Operative considers it. The Operative wants it. Allred — the panel where loneliness almost wins. The flicker.
- OPERATIVE…
- OPERATIVEMr. Cruz.
- OPERATIVEThat is a seductive offer.
- OPERATIVEI will accept it on one condition.
- OPERATIVEYou do not plug the USB into the Amp Box.
- OPERATIVEI am not a fool, Jesse.
- OPERATIVEYou play the chord. You do not open a portal.
- OPERATIVEIf the Amp Box lights green at any point — I fire.